Editor's Note from November 12, 2015

The main warning I’ve given to prospective writers for The Behemoth is that we don’t do polemics. Debates can be helpful. Iron sharpens iron. But while The Behemoth runs a lot of articles that draw from science, we won’t argue about origins or climate change or most of the fights people think about when someone says “Christianity and science.” We’re a magazine searching for awe, wonder, and beautiful orthodoxy.

More recently, I’ve started adding another warning: We try very hard not to publish sermon illustrations. Like debates, sermon illustrations can be wonderful and helpful. (Hello, friends at PreachingToday.com!) But sometimes, when I hear science used to illustrate a theological point, it can suck a lot of the life out of the science story. (The same can be true for historical anecdotes.) I want the science to provoke awe and wonder. I don’t want it just to be an example for “the real point.”

But my favorite Behemoth pieces are the ones that don’t end with the science, where a discovery about the world truly prompts thinking about who God is. And in this issue, Joel Bezaire’s piece on fractals and Chad Meeks’s article on zombie ants both show a real love for their subjects and a real desire to think about what kind of God created them. I’ll admit I was skeptical about both pitches at first. But I can’t argue with their results.